Scott Jennings | Epidemic of mistrust raises many questions

1:22 AM,
Dec. 18, 2013

Scott Jennings

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Scott Jennings
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As 2013 draws to a close, a number of public surveys show that we live in a world where trust is at an all-time low. Americans don't trust each other, their government, the media or the banks that hold our money.

In June, Gallup ran its annual survey testing the confidence Americans have in 16 institutions that are part of our culture. Only three of the 16 had more than 50 percent of the people questioned saying they had a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in them - the military, small business and the police. Organized religion ranked fourth at 48 percent.